“Alexa, how much time left on the timer?”Particularly useful since there’s no clock displayed.

“Alexa, play playlist Sleepy Time”
I listen to this playlist as I fall asleep every night. I had to first create and populate the playlist in Amazon Music, but it after I set it up it was instantly available for my Amazon Echo to find by name and play from.

“Alexa, set a sleep timer for 45 minutes”
Alexa turns off the music when the sleep timer expires. The sleep timer doesn’t ring any alarms, as long as you’re careful to not accidentally set a normal timer instead (like I did once. Once.)

“Alexa, what time is it?”Sounds silly since I’m usually facing a phone or a computer, but in the middle of the night I’ve used this as the laziest timepiece ever.

“Alexa, trigger bedtime lights”
Activates an IFTTT recipe I created that turns my three Hue lamps to a purple hex code #5353c6 (it’s easy to hook up IFTTT to Echo, go here and follow the steps)